Marchers with one holding a sign that reads Don't Mess With Texas Women

Texas Republicans Enact Nation’s Strictest Anti-Abortion Law

By Sarah Mitchell, President, Women Organizing Women Democrats. In May, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law one of the nation’s strictest abortion measures, SB8, banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy with the law effective September 1, 2021. His Facebook Livestream said the Legislature “worked together on a bipartisan basis to pass a bill that I’m about …